Author's Note- This is probably my favorite chapter, cause now my character
comes in! I'm so happy! **does a little happy dance**....well, now that I
got that outta my system...here's chapter three...
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Chapter 3- Mysterious Girl, Deadly Assassin
It was midnight, the full moon shown upon the land, as a strange shadowed figure walked toward what seemed to be a dark portal. A pair of red eyes opened in the portal and stared at the shadowed figure. The figure stepped into the moonlight. It was a strange person, neither human nor demon. He had long white hair, cold & empty blue eyes, he wore a white and black trench coat, black gloves and had what appeared to be only one black angel wing. He was painfully gripping his right shoulder, which had no arm attached and was bleeding silver blood, with his left hand.
"Where is the jewel?", a voice from the portal said.
"Ma.Master.the boy.he destroyed it."
"Hmm, the boy is more trouble than he's worth. Next time I'll destroy him."
"What.of me...then? I.have failed you."
"You may have failed me, but you are still of some use. You will be of great help to me in the future."
"Thank you.Master."
"In the meanwhile, let's fix that little problem.", the voice said as the portal began to glow black.
The darkness spread from the portal to cover the strange creature's shoulder. As the darkness faded away, a bare arm with claws was in it's place.
"That should suit you nicely, am I right, Sephiroth?", the voice from the portal said.
"Yes Master.it is perfect.", Sephiroth said as he flexed his new arm.
"I will let you rest for a while, to regain your energy.meanwhile I will send Nato."
All of a sudden a demon faded into reality from the shadows, he wore a black ninja suit, which covered everything except for his eyes, which were steel grey and had a slit instead if a pupil.
"Now go Nato, my assassin, destroy them!", the voice said as the portal disappeared.
FADEOUT- later on.
It was morning. Seishin, Ritoki and Shippo were all walking toward the pillar of smoke the came from the village.
"Mmmm.....smells like their baking bread.", Seishin said.
"What's with the smelling thing all the time?", Ritoki said.
"Don't ask me, I can just smell things more specificly than others...wait, hold on, I can hear....", Seishin said as he stopped walking but was then cut off by Ritoki.
"So now your going to start with the hearing!"
"Shut up!", he screamed startling Ritoki, "I can hear screams from the village! And a slight smell of blood, come on!
Seishin ran as fast as he could with Ritoki and Shippo following. They soon reached the village to see some of the villagers unconcious & wounded and many even dead, all lying in the streets.
"Wha...what could do this?", Seishin said.
"I've never even seen stuff this bad.", Ritoki said.
"Well, I have. It's the work of a demon.", Shippo said.
"No shit Sherlock.", Ritoki said.
"I smell demon in the air.", Seishin said.
"Again, I will say it, no shit Sherlock!"
"There's more than one stupid!"
"Oh, ok, and don't call me stupid!"
"Fine."
"Look!", Shippo said as he pointed into the nearby bushes at a shadow.
Noticing that it had been seen, the shadowed figure ran into the woods.
"After it!"
They ran after the demon for about half an hour before they lost it.
"Where the hell did it go?!", Seishin said in a frustrated tone of voice.
They walked around quietly, and all of a sudden they herd a rustling sound in a bush. They all tore open the bush but it was just a squirrel. Then, unexpectedly, 3 energy blades parallel to each other rushed toward them. They all easily dodged them and then Shippo shot out a fire blast from his hand. It ripped through the trees and then the demon narrowly dodged it. The demon landed on it's knees as it grabbed it's left shoulder, which had a slight burn. They all rushed up toward the demon and Ritoki aimed her sword at it. Then the demon looked up. It was.....a girl. She had long light brown hair with blond highlights that was in a loose braid, spiky bangs which were all over the place, she wore a tan sleeveless army shirt, with metal shoulder pads, dark pale green army shorts, tall black leather boots that went higher than her knees, black gloves that ended above her elbow that had the fingers cut out, four pairs of spiked bracelets, two on each wrist. She had four black triangular tattoos, two on each side, on her face and a diagonal scar on the right side of her face. She had a small black belt as a choker, and two more belts, one black and the other brown, that she wore on her waist. Plus she had yellow slitted eyes and pointy ears. She looked up at the three with an emotionless expression.
"Should we kill her?", Ritoki said.
"I...I don't think so.", Seishin said.
"Why not?!?!"
"I don't think she did it. It's too obvious."
"I think she did it."
"I agree with Ritoki, that I do.", Shippo said.
"Well I don't."
Seishin looked at the demon. He stared into her empty, emotionless eyes. He suddenly felt an emotion in his soul. He didn't know how he knew, he just did, he was feeling her emotions...the ones deep inside her. 'How...how can someone feel so much pain...not even I can handle it. Wait, I feel, a deep sorrow...who is she?', he thought to himself, 'She isn't normal...not even by demon standards.'
"Who are you?", Seishin said.
When she didn't respond, Ritoki kicked the demon hard in the ribs, knocking her over.
"He asked you a question filth!", she screamed.
The demon just sat back up and again cluched her shoulder. Ritoki just looked at the demon, getting even more pissed.
"Why I otta!!", Ritoki said as she clutched her fist.
"Calm down.", Seishin said.
"Why should I?! We should've killed her already!"
"I don't think so."
"I don't care what you think!"
"And I don't care what you think."
"Ok, that's it, she dies now!", Ritoki said as she swung the sword vertically down a then demon.
A second later, both Shippo and Seishin stared in surprise, as so did Ritoki but she was also in shock. The demon had grabbed the sword with her right hand. The deep red blood trickled down the sword. Then quicker than the eye could see, the demon stood up and grabbed Ritoki's throat with her still bleeding right hand. She lifted her off the ground and squeezed harder and harder, blocking off Ritoki's air supply.
"That was for before.", the demon said in a low voice.
Ritoki dropped her sword and tried to free herself from the demon's grip. She struggled harder and harder, each time becoming even weaker.
"Let her go!" Seishin said.
The demon let go of her throat, dropping her on the ground. Ritoki gasped for air, breathing heavily. Then the demon ran away. Shippo tried to run after her, but Seishin stuck out his arm and held him back.
"Let her go.", Seishin said.
"Why?", Shippo said.
"I really don't know."
"NOW DO YOU SEE WHY I WANTED TO KILL HER?!?!?!", Ritoki shouted.
"Just let it go Ritoki, we'll see her later."
"How the hell do you know?!"
"Just trust me. We will."
FADEOUT-
She ran faster than the wind. The trees passed bye and bye, but they were merely blurs. She wondered why that boy had let her go, and why she didn't kill that bitchy, big-mouthed, demon slayer brat. When he had looked into her eyes, she felt a warmth coming from him, and a feeling as if when he stared at her...he could see into her soul. But none of those beings mattered to her...she didn't know why she was even thinking about them. They were nothings to her, she didn't care if they lived or died. But the next time they would interfere with her life, she would annialate them.
FADEOUT-
Seishin, Ritoki and Shippo were all cleaning up the remains of the village. They had already finished burying the bodies, so now they were just clearing up what remained of the huts.
"That's the last of it.", Seishin said as he finished piling up the last wood pile.
"So what now?", Ritoki said.
"I guess we go after the demon that killed everyone."
"That we shall.", Shippo said.
"Ok...so we go to kill that damn demon from before...at least I get to kill that bitch."
"It wasn't her Ritoki...I told you that before."
"How can you be so blind! We caught her red handed and you let her go!"
"She wasn't the one who did it."
"Yes she was! It's so obvious but your just being a dumbass!"
"I don't believe we should kill her, that I don't.", Shippo said.
" I don't think we should kill her either. Lets just see what happens, okay Ritoki?"
"Fine! But I'm not making any promises."
All of a sudden, something rushed past Ritoki at the speed of light. As it stopped and knelt, a cut appeared on Ritoki's cheek. The red blood trickled down her cheek. She stood there in shock, and touched her cheek and then stared at the blood.
"Weaklings.", the demon in the black ninja suit said.
"You fucking bastard!", Seishin said as he unseathed his sword and swung it at the demon.
The demon easily dodged it, and in the process of swingging, Seishin fell face-first forward. Seishin used the sword to help him up.
"You'll pay for that!"
"Hmm. Weakling. You don't even know how to use a sword."
"Uhh...well....."
"Don't tell me you don't know how to use a sword!", Ritoki shouted.
"Well...I never got to learn that yet....."
"You idiot!"
"I will take care of this, that I shall.", Shippo said as he ran toward the demon and shot a stream of fire at him.
"Hmm...pointless.", the ninja demon said as he stood there and the the flame ungulfed him.
All of a sudden, the ninja demon appeared behind Shippo and dug a ninja star deep into his back. Shippo toppled over in pain. He raised his hand to release another stream of fire, but, nothing happened.
"Don't even try. The star buried in your back is enpowered with an anti- youki (*a/n-for all you clueless people out there, youki is demon energy*) ninja spell."
"You'll surely pay for that.", Shippo said as Seishin helped him up and gave him aid in standing.
"Well...since at this point most of us are useless...run for it!", Seishin said as they all ran into the woods.
"Hmm. Pathetic.", the ninja demon said as he disappeared and followed after them.
Seishin, Ritoki and Shippo ran through the woods as fast as they could, but it was no use. The ninja demon was easily catching up to them.
"Why don't we just stand and fight? If we keep going like this, we're sitting ducks! I can still defeat this guy!", Ritoki said.
"No! You can't take him alone! He's too fast for you!"
"Well, it's our only chance!"
All of a sudden they stopped...they were all trapped. They had run into a dead end. The only escape was a huge cave, which pretty much was the dead end.
"Now what are we supposed to do?!", Ritoki said.
"I have no clue! We're trapped!", Seishin said.
"Our only option is to stand and fight!", Ritoki said.
"That it is.", Shippo said, "I will not stand bye and die."
"How ironic."
They all turned around to see the ninja demon standing in the cave entrance smiling...plus clapping.
"I honor thee...for thy futile efforts."
"Will you just fucking shut up already?"
"Hmm...it makes no difference. Yee shall die anyway."
"Just shut up!", Seishin said as he tried to punch the ninja demon.
Then the demon dissappeared. While Seishin looked around to find him, the demon jumped down from the tree and when he landed him kicked Seishin in the stomach, sending him flying into a tree that with the force cracked in half. Then, all of a sudden, the ninja demon's eyes went wide. He then turned around and threw a dagger at the cave. As everyone looked at the cave, they saw the female demon from before standing there. She looked completely healed from her wounds from before, except for the fact that when she blocked the dagger from hitting her face, she blocked it with her right hand which now had a dagger sticking right through it. With her left hand she pulled the dagger out, the blood dripping heavily on the ground. All of a sudden she ran at the ninja demon and as she pulled her hand back to punch him, three metal claws slid out of her fist...all three soaked in blood. The ninja demon tried to dodge her attack, but as she thrust her fist the three blades peirced the left side of his chest and sent him flyng. The demon quickly recovered from the shock of being hit and stood up staring at the strange girl. She lifted the hand with the three claws to her face, and licked the blood off one of the blades.
"You are strong.....there is great power in your blood.....but your evil ruins it.....the taste is grotesque.", she said staring at him.
"Who is yee? I must know the name thy rival."
"What is yours?"
"Nato, the assasin."
They both just stood there silent staring at each other. Seishin shakily stood up and walked over to Ritoki.
"Talk about weird people. And I thought you were abnormal.", Ritoki said.
"This is no time for chit-chat, we're in the middle of a battle, concentrate!", Seishin said.
"God...since when are you so serious?"
"I'm always serious when it comes to battle."
All of a sudden, Nato sent a barrage of ninja stars at the girl, but another trio of claws sprouted from her other hand and blocked the attack. She then ran at Nato at full speed, basiclly a blur, and kicked him in the stomach, then twisted around and did a double kick-spin and then finally slashed him in the face with her claws. He then counter attacked by throwing a small bomb in her face. The blast sent her flyng back and she hit the ground hard, but she recovered from the shock of the blast too late for by the time she looked up, Nato was above her about to cut her in half with a katana. In a flash, the scene went from shocking to horrifying. Seishin had apparently jumped in the way, which caused the sword to go straight throught his stomach. Nato pulled the sword out, and Seishin fell to the ground. Everyone, except Nato, even the emotionless demon girl, stared in shock.
"What a pathetic boy. Sacrificing thy self for another is an idiodic action. Thou are such a fool."
"Aahhhhhhhh!", the demon said as she quickly stood up and thrust her claws into his throat and then easily decapitated him.
She then just began to walk away with the same emotionless expression as before. Then Ritoki ran up to her and smacked her. She stared in shock and rubbed the side of her face that had been slapped.
"How can you just leave him there?! He sacrificed himself to save you!"
"It's not my fault he did that."
"Well he did so you owe him your life!"
"No...Ritoki....I'm just fine.....I just...need some.....some time to heal."
Ritoki turned around to see Seishin leaning against a tree, grasping the tremendous wound.
"Your alive?", Ritoki said.
All of a sudden she ran toward Seishin and hugged him tight.
"HEY! WATCH IT!", Seishin said.
"Oh! Sorry!"
"I am still injured here!"
"I said I'm sorry!"
"Stop fighting you two.", Shippo said.
There was then a moment of silence, then the demon began to walk away.
"Why don't you stay?", Seishin said to her.
The demon turned around and stared at Seishin...unsure about what he meant.
"You know, travel with us?"
"It wouldn't be right."
"It would be fine...besides, you owe me."
"Fine. I never leave a dept unpaid."
"So what is your name?"
"Ahkra."
"Ok. So lets go Ahkra. Oh, and if you want we'll help you heal that wound.", he said looking at her hand.
"I'm fine.", she said as the wound on her hand began to instantly heal, "Took it long enough."
"What the hell was that?"
"I can self heal."
"What?! You mean I almost died for nothing!"
"That why your an idiot."
FADEOUT-
"Hey hurry up Ritoki!", Seishin shouted.
Seishin, Shippo and Ahkra were waiting for Ritoki at the bottom of a hill. Seishin was shirtless with his stomach bandaged up. Ritoki ran down the hill as fast as she could.
"Don't hurry me! I was purifying the demon's remains so that he can't come back as a zombie or something."
"Well, let's go."
'The journey continues...and now we have another who has joined us. I wonder how many more shall come to journey with us.....well, we'll find out soon enough.', Seishin thought to himself.
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A/N- that's it...next time i'll post the so-called beginning and ending themes that I believe fit the story....I'm so happy! My birthday was yesterday and my party's in two days! YAY! Well...anyway...bye.
Next Chapter- Strange Trickster and the Transformation of the Sword
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Chapter 3- Mysterious Girl, Deadly Assassin
It was midnight, the full moon shown upon the land, as a strange shadowed figure walked toward what seemed to be a dark portal. A pair of red eyes opened in the portal and stared at the shadowed figure. The figure stepped into the moonlight. It was a strange person, neither human nor demon. He had long white hair, cold & empty blue eyes, he wore a white and black trench coat, black gloves and had what appeared to be only one black angel wing. He was painfully gripping his right shoulder, which had no arm attached and was bleeding silver blood, with his left hand.
"Where is the jewel?", a voice from the portal said.
"Ma.Master.the boy.he destroyed it."
"Hmm, the boy is more trouble than he's worth. Next time I'll destroy him."
"What.of me...then? I.have failed you."
"You may have failed me, but you are still of some use. You will be of great help to me in the future."
"Thank you.Master."
"In the meanwhile, let's fix that little problem.", the voice said as the portal began to glow black.
The darkness spread from the portal to cover the strange creature's shoulder. As the darkness faded away, a bare arm with claws was in it's place.
"That should suit you nicely, am I right, Sephiroth?", the voice from the portal said.
"Yes Master.it is perfect.", Sephiroth said as he flexed his new arm.
"I will let you rest for a while, to regain your energy.meanwhile I will send Nato."
All of a sudden a demon faded into reality from the shadows, he wore a black ninja suit, which covered everything except for his eyes, which were steel grey and had a slit instead if a pupil.
"Now go Nato, my assassin, destroy them!", the voice said as the portal disappeared.
FADEOUT- later on.
It was morning. Seishin, Ritoki and Shippo were all walking toward the pillar of smoke the came from the village.
"Mmmm.....smells like their baking bread.", Seishin said.
"What's with the smelling thing all the time?", Ritoki said.
"Don't ask me, I can just smell things more specificly than others...wait, hold on, I can hear....", Seishin said as he stopped walking but was then cut off by Ritoki.
"So now your going to start with the hearing!"
"Shut up!", he screamed startling Ritoki, "I can hear screams from the village! And a slight smell of blood, come on!
Seishin ran as fast as he could with Ritoki and Shippo following. They soon reached the village to see some of the villagers unconcious & wounded and many even dead, all lying in the streets.
"Wha...what could do this?", Seishin said.
"I've never even seen stuff this bad.", Ritoki said.
"Well, I have. It's the work of a demon.", Shippo said.
"No shit Sherlock.", Ritoki said.
"I smell demon in the air.", Seishin said.
"Again, I will say it, no shit Sherlock!"
"There's more than one stupid!"
"Oh, ok, and don't call me stupid!"
"Fine."
"Look!", Shippo said as he pointed into the nearby bushes at a shadow.
Noticing that it had been seen, the shadowed figure ran into the woods.
"After it!"
They ran after the demon for about half an hour before they lost it.
"Where the hell did it go?!", Seishin said in a frustrated tone of voice.
They walked around quietly, and all of a sudden they herd a rustling sound in a bush. They all tore open the bush but it was just a squirrel. Then, unexpectedly, 3 energy blades parallel to each other rushed toward them. They all easily dodged them and then Shippo shot out a fire blast from his hand. It ripped through the trees and then the demon narrowly dodged it. The demon landed on it's knees as it grabbed it's left shoulder, which had a slight burn. They all rushed up toward the demon and Ritoki aimed her sword at it. Then the demon looked up. It was.....a girl. She had long light brown hair with blond highlights that was in a loose braid, spiky bangs which were all over the place, she wore a tan sleeveless army shirt, with metal shoulder pads, dark pale green army shorts, tall black leather boots that went higher than her knees, black gloves that ended above her elbow that had the fingers cut out, four pairs of spiked bracelets, two on each wrist. She had four black triangular tattoos, two on each side, on her face and a diagonal scar on the right side of her face. She had a small black belt as a choker, and two more belts, one black and the other brown, that she wore on her waist. Plus she had yellow slitted eyes and pointy ears. She looked up at the three with an emotionless expression.
"Should we kill her?", Ritoki said.
"I...I don't think so.", Seishin said.
"Why not?!?!"
"I don't think she did it. It's too obvious."
"I think she did it."
"I agree with Ritoki, that I do.", Shippo said.
"Well I don't."
Seishin looked at the demon. He stared into her empty, emotionless eyes. He suddenly felt an emotion in his soul. He didn't know how he knew, he just did, he was feeling her emotions...the ones deep inside her. 'How...how can someone feel so much pain...not even I can handle it. Wait, I feel, a deep sorrow...who is she?', he thought to himself, 'She isn't normal...not even by demon standards.'
"Who are you?", Seishin said.
When she didn't respond, Ritoki kicked the demon hard in the ribs, knocking her over.
"He asked you a question filth!", she screamed.
The demon just sat back up and again cluched her shoulder. Ritoki just looked at the demon, getting even more pissed.
"Why I otta!!", Ritoki said as she clutched her fist.
"Calm down.", Seishin said.
"Why should I?! We should've killed her already!"
"I don't think so."
"I don't care what you think!"
"And I don't care what you think."
"Ok, that's it, she dies now!", Ritoki said as she swung the sword vertically down a then demon.
A second later, both Shippo and Seishin stared in surprise, as so did Ritoki but she was also in shock. The demon had grabbed the sword with her right hand. The deep red blood trickled down the sword. Then quicker than the eye could see, the demon stood up and grabbed Ritoki's throat with her still bleeding right hand. She lifted her off the ground and squeezed harder and harder, blocking off Ritoki's air supply.
"That was for before.", the demon said in a low voice.
Ritoki dropped her sword and tried to free herself from the demon's grip. She struggled harder and harder, each time becoming even weaker.
"Let her go!" Seishin said.
The demon let go of her throat, dropping her on the ground. Ritoki gasped for air, breathing heavily. Then the demon ran away. Shippo tried to run after her, but Seishin stuck out his arm and held him back.
"Let her go.", Seishin said.
"Why?", Shippo said.
"I really don't know."
"NOW DO YOU SEE WHY I WANTED TO KILL HER?!?!?!", Ritoki shouted.
"Just let it go Ritoki, we'll see her later."
"How the hell do you know?!"
"Just trust me. We will."
FADEOUT-
She ran faster than the wind. The trees passed bye and bye, but they were merely blurs. She wondered why that boy had let her go, and why she didn't kill that bitchy, big-mouthed, demon slayer brat. When he had looked into her eyes, she felt a warmth coming from him, and a feeling as if when he stared at her...he could see into her soul. But none of those beings mattered to her...she didn't know why she was even thinking about them. They were nothings to her, she didn't care if they lived or died. But the next time they would interfere with her life, she would annialate them.
FADEOUT-
Seishin, Ritoki and Shippo were all cleaning up the remains of the village. They had already finished burying the bodies, so now they were just clearing up what remained of the huts.
"That's the last of it.", Seishin said as he finished piling up the last wood pile.
"So what now?", Ritoki said.
"I guess we go after the demon that killed everyone."
"That we shall.", Shippo said.
"Ok...so we go to kill that damn demon from before...at least I get to kill that bitch."
"It wasn't her Ritoki...I told you that before."
"How can you be so blind! We caught her red handed and you let her go!"
"She wasn't the one who did it."
"Yes she was! It's so obvious but your just being a dumbass!"
"I don't believe we should kill her, that I don't.", Shippo said.
" I don't think we should kill her either. Lets just see what happens, okay Ritoki?"
"Fine! But I'm not making any promises."
All of a sudden, something rushed past Ritoki at the speed of light. As it stopped and knelt, a cut appeared on Ritoki's cheek. The red blood trickled down her cheek. She stood there in shock, and touched her cheek and then stared at the blood.
"Weaklings.", the demon in the black ninja suit said.
"You fucking bastard!", Seishin said as he unseathed his sword and swung it at the demon.
The demon easily dodged it, and in the process of swingging, Seishin fell face-first forward. Seishin used the sword to help him up.
"You'll pay for that!"
"Hmm. Weakling. You don't even know how to use a sword."
"Uhh...well....."
"Don't tell me you don't know how to use a sword!", Ritoki shouted.
"Well...I never got to learn that yet....."
"You idiot!"
"I will take care of this, that I shall.", Shippo said as he ran toward the demon and shot a stream of fire at him.
"Hmm...pointless.", the ninja demon said as he stood there and the the flame ungulfed him.
All of a sudden, the ninja demon appeared behind Shippo and dug a ninja star deep into his back. Shippo toppled over in pain. He raised his hand to release another stream of fire, but, nothing happened.
"Don't even try. The star buried in your back is enpowered with an anti- youki (*a/n-for all you clueless people out there, youki is demon energy*) ninja spell."
"You'll surely pay for that.", Shippo said as Seishin helped him up and gave him aid in standing.
"Well...since at this point most of us are useless...run for it!", Seishin said as they all ran into the woods.
"Hmm. Pathetic.", the ninja demon said as he disappeared and followed after them.
Seishin, Ritoki and Shippo ran through the woods as fast as they could, but it was no use. The ninja demon was easily catching up to them.
"Why don't we just stand and fight? If we keep going like this, we're sitting ducks! I can still defeat this guy!", Ritoki said.
"No! You can't take him alone! He's too fast for you!"
"Well, it's our only chance!"
All of a sudden they stopped...they were all trapped. They had run into a dead end. The only escape was a huge cave, which pretty much was the dead end.
"Now what are we supposed to do?!", Ritoki said.
"I have no clue! We're trapped!", Seishin said.
"Our only option is to stand and fight!", Ritoki said.
"That it is.", Shippo said, "I will not stand bye and die."
"How ironic."
They all turned around to see the ninja demon standing in the cave entrance smiling...plus clapping.
"I honor thee...for thy futile efforts."
"Will you just fucking shut up already?"
"Hmm...it makes no difference. Yee shall die anyway."
"Just shut up!", Seishin said as he tried to punch the ninja demon.
Then the demon dissappeared. While Seishin looked around to find him, the demon jumped down from the tree and when he landed him kicked Seishin in the stomach, sending him flying into a tree that with the force cracked in half. Then, all of a sudden, the ninja demon's eyes went wide. He then turned around and threw a dagger at the cave. As everyone looked at the cave, they saw the female demon from before standing there. She looked completely healed from her wounds from before, except for the fact that when she blocked the dagger from hitting her face, she blocked it with her right hand which now had a dagger sticking right through it. With her left hand she pulled the dagger out, the blood dripping heavily on the ground. All of a sudden she ran at the ninja demon and as she pulled her hand back to punch him, three metal claws slid out of her fist...all three soaked in blood. The ninja demon tried to dodge her attack, but as she thrust her fist the three blades peirced the left side of his chest and sent him flyng. The demon quickly recovered from the shock of being hit and stood up staring at the strange girl. She lifted the hand with the three claws to her face, and licked the blood off one of the blades.
"You are strong.....there is great power in your blood.....but your evil ruins it.....the taste is grotesque.", she said staring at him.
"Who is yee? I must know the name thy rival."
"What is yours?"
"Nato, the assasin."
They both just stood there silent staring at each other. Seishin shakily stood up and walked over to Ritoki.
"Talk about weird people. And I thought you were abnormal.", Ritoki said.
"This is no time for chit-chat, we're in the middle of a battle, concentrate!", Seishin said.
"God...since when are you so serious?"
"I'm always serious when it comes to battle."
All of a sudden, Nato sent a barrage of ninja stars at the girl, but another trio of claws sprouted from her other hand and blocked the attack. She then ran at Nato at full speed, basiclly a blur, and kicked him in the stomach, then twisted around and did a double kick-spin and then finally slashed him in the face with her claws. He then counter attacked by throwing a small bomb in her face. The blast sent her flyng back and she hit the ground hard, but she recovered from the shock of the blast too late for by the time she looked up, Nato was above her about to cut her in half with a katana. In a flash, the scene went from shocking to horrifying. Seishin had apparently jumped in the way, which caused the sword to go straight throught his stomach. Nato pulled the sword out, and Seishin fell to the ground. Everyone, except Nato, even the emotionless demon girl, stared in shock.
"What a pathetic boy. Sacrificing thy self for another is an idiodic action. Thou are such a fool."
"Aahhhhhhhh!", the demon said as she quickly stood up and thrust her claws into his throat and then easily decapitated him.
She then just began to walk away with the same emotionless expression as before. Then Ritoki ran up to her and smacked her. She stared in shock and rubbed the side of her face that had been slapped.
"How can you just leave him there?! He sacrificed himself to save you!"
"It's not my fault he did that."
"Well he did so you owe him your life!"
"No...Ritoki....I'm just fine.....I just...need some.....some time to heal."
Ritoki turned around to see Seishin leaning against a tree, grasping the tremendous wound.
"Your alive?", Ritoki said.
All of a sudden she ran toward Seishin and hugged him tight.
"HEY! WATCH IT!", Seishin said.
"Oh! Sorry!"
"I am still injured here!"
"I said I'm sorry!"
"Stop fighting you two.", Shippo said.
There was then a moment of silence, then the demon began to walk away.
"Why don't you stay?", Seishin said to her.
The demon turned around and stared at Seishin...unsure about what he meant.
"You know, travel with us?"
"It wouldn't be right."
"It would be fine...besides, you owe me."
"Fine. I never leave a dept unpaid."
"So what is your name?"
"Ahkra."
"Ok. So lets go Ahkra. Oh, and if you want we'll help you heal that wound.", he said looking at her hand.
"I'm fine.", she said as the wound on her hand began to instantly heal, "Took it long enough."
"What the hell was that?"
"I can self heal."
"What?! You mean I almost died for nothing!"
"That why your an idiot."
FADEOUT-
"Hey hurry up Ritoki!", Seishin shouted.
Seishin, Shippo and Ahkra were waiting for Ritoki at the bottom of a hill. Seishin was shirtless with his stomach bandaged up. Ritoki ran down the hill as fast as she could.
"Don't hurry me! I was purifying the demon's remains so that he can't come back as a zombie or something."
"Well, let's go."
'The journey continues...and now we have another who has joined us. I wonder how many more shall come to journey with us.....well, we'll find out soon enough.', Seishin thought to himself.
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A/N- that's it...next time i'll post the so-called beginning and ending themes that I believe fit the story....I'm so happy! My birthday was yesterday and my party's in two days! YAY! Well...anyway...bye.
Next Chapter- Strange Trickster and the Transformation of the Sword
